Victorian Women's Fiction Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual  -  Shirley Foster

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Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rathe...
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Uitgever: Routledge 250 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0415524113 ISBN-13: 9780415524117